Thomas O’Grady 6/20/23 Thomas O’Grady 6/20/23

The Poet & the Fiddler: A Musing on Seamus Heaney

The Given Note’s mournful spirit would certainly have been in the air when the poem was read at Heaney’s funeral.

Thomas O’Grady 10/4/22 Thomas O’Grady 10/4/22

A Prayer for My Daughter

I was simply tongue-tied by all that my daughter’s reporting was bearing witness to.

Thomas O’Grady 10/12/21 Thomas O’Grady 10/12/21

I have not yet made it to James Joyce’s grave.

Thomas O’Grady 4/6/21 Thomas O’Grady 4/6/21

“I became Seamus eile — Irish for ‘the other Seamus.’ A nice qualifier. Otherhood via brotherhood.”

Thomas O’Grady 4/14/20 Thomas O’Grady 4/14/20

There’s a scene in Brian Friel’s iconic play Translations (1980) that seems to me to speak to our current moment.